Thursday, June 07, 2018

Since VRChat has likely been forever tarnished with a (fairly) unfair reputation as simply being a hovel of horrible trolls and anime freaks, watch this adorable fricking bird from South Korea dance to Kanye, try out American-English slang, and then (pretty poignantly), share his experiences from the real world as a member of the South Korean Army who dealt (and is still dealing) with a tragic death in the ranks. He talks with fellow friendly VRChatters from around the world into the morning, sharing deeply personal things from the safety of his feathery avatar... and well, this is what a thriving virtual community looks and feels like. Unsurprisingly, VRChat's concurrency numbers remain strong and far outpaces its competitors.

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Aww... And that video reached 12k views in a couple of days and now the counter shows 15k+. Even if they aren't huge numbers for Youtube, in SL not even Strawberry Singh does that: her Youtube videos rarely get past 12k views at all. Of her past 24 videos, only 3 are above 2k; then there is one from 2 months ago at 10k (some older videos have more views).

Instead it's still common for recent (less than 1 month old) VRChat videos to have 10.000+ views, a few even more than 100.000.
For comparison, recent SL videos hardly reach 1.000, but a few trolling videos (except this https://youtu.be/OaPZCyA82po but it's from Youtube singer Myah Alanna, who has 182k subscribers).

While many people in VRChat just mess around and the concurrency is a fraction of SL, it looks pretty alive.